The Fasting Highway

I live in the Northern Suburbs of Perth Western Australia, I’m 48 years old, almost married to the incredible Terry (hopefully we will get married this year as I kept telling him I wouldn’t marry him while I was overweight) we been engaged for 8 years. I’m a mother to a 21 year old and 19 year old twins, all gorgeous young men now. Fur Mum to an Old English Sheepdog Benson and our baby a 1 year ol...

Back story: Christmas 2019: my sister had lost a bunch of weight and she looked fabulous plus my health insurance premiums were being determined by some biometrics and I could save money by getting them down. I knew what to do after all my years of yo-yo dieting. Eat less, move more, right? I started tracking my calories and exercised like crazy. In 9 months, I had lost 40#. I stayed at my goal we...

By Christine Field. I have been intermittent fasting for about five years in addition to trying countless other methods of weight loss. Initially, I did it wrong. Unclean. Uneducated about how to properly fast etc. all of the same things you hear your guests say. I have been overweight my entire life. As a child I was always the biggest one. I believe that I suffer from insulin issues that go unde...

Hey friends! Bud’s story is fantastic- as I began seeing his transformation, and even the way he spoke about his experience, it reminded me of a Connecticut version of Graeme Currie! I introduced Bud to IF and even gave him your book in the parking lot of a funeral home before going into the service- I remember thinking I shouldn't look so happy walking into a funeral, but I had never had anyo...

I live in Poulsbo, Washington, USA. I began IF September 2017 after a phone call from a friend on vacation on the East Coast. She told me about a book by Gin Stephens her nephew had read and had lost 50 pounds. I got copy and could not put it down. I started losing weight right from the beginning. Over the next 4 years, I would get close to my first goal and then I would go up a few pounds. From J...

My story- I am a 41-year-old mom of 2 boys (ages 5&8) and wife to my wonderful husband for 10 years. We live in Lake Mary, FL (suburb of Orlando). I am a full-time stay-at-home mom for the last 4 years, formerly a paralegal (for 15yrs) and most recently a podcaster & fasting coach! I started yo-yo dieting around age 16. Since then, I have struggled with my weight. In college, instead of th...

Sean L. Dipple South Carolina, USA I was born in 1971 in Columbus Ohio and lived in Central Ohio until I was 12 years old. My father worked in the office equipment industry and quickly worked up through the ranks. When I was halfway thru middle school he was promoted and moved the family to the Chicago area and we lived in the NW part of Chicago until I was 18. I was always a slender child and was...

Linda Dicker Bio. Height 5’4” (163 cm) SW 253 lbs. (115 kg) CW 197 lbs. (89 kg) GW 133 lbs. (60 kg) Linda is a 58-year-old stay-at-home mom with 8 children. She and her husband live in the US, in rural Virginia. For the past 29 years Linda has used her degree in education to homeschool all of her children through high school, with her youngest graduating this spring. Weight gain has been a struggl...

Kiri is a 43-year-old registered nurse, professional dancer, mango farmer and mother of two girls 12 and 14. She resides in a small town called Kununurra, on Miriwoong country in the remote East Kimberly of Western Australia. Kiri was the chubby baby who turned into the even chubbier toddler, becoming the obese child who transitioned into the desperately dieting teenager and adult. At 13 years of...

Tonya Kortekaas lives in Pontiac, Michigan with her husband Michael of 10 years. She is mom to 3 adult sons and “bonus” mom to Michael’s 3 adult children as well. Tonya spent most of her adult life as a stay-at-home mom of 3 growing boys and self employed as a portrait photographer.  She felt that her most important mission in life was to raise her children and give them all the care and love they...

By Anne Henley I live in South Carolina on Lake Murray outside Columbia (the capital). I am married, and we just celebrated 30 years in October. I have two grown children, one is in his first year of graduate school in Michigan and the other just got married (Oct 29, 2022). Back story. I became complacent and tired. I have always been an active person, and actually have a degree in health fitness...

Tracey Mack lives in Taylor, Michigan a small city outside of Detroit. Tracey currently works for the U.S. Government, and she also served in the U. S. Army. Tracey has been yo-yo- dieting since the age of 25 when she started gaining weight after giving birth to her second child. Tracey has tried every diet known to man including working out in the gym for hours at a time. She reached her highest...

Leslie Taylor is a stay-at-home mom and grandma and has worked as a medical website content developer. She enjoys taking complicated medical information and presenting it in a creative and easy-to-understand manner for the general public. She is currently writing a book on fasting called Fast Well Feast Well and will be releasing the content of the book in a free weekly newsletter called FastWell....

Belle is 57 and lives just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. She has been married to her husband for 25 years and has a 22-year-old son, a 20-year-old daughter and a Pitbull named Louie. She works remotely full time, for a home care agency in New York City where she is a Client Account Manager. She has a part time job on the weekends at a women’s clothing boutique that sh...

I am a 42-year-old mom of three amazing kids ages 15, 13, and 10. I am a wife of 19 years to my best friend Steven. We are both teachers who have been in the classroom for almost 20 years. We enjoy life in a tiny house on 3 acres—a little slice of “country” in crowded Northern California. We grow our own fruits and veggies and currently have about a dozen chickens. I was first introduced to IF in...

Heather is a 43-year-old mom of 2 and has been married to her husband, Branden, for 10 years.  She is a Kindergarten teacher from Southwestern Ontario, Canada. At the end of October 2021, a friend sent her a video of Graeme in a podcast interview.  She listened to it and had a “lightbulb” moment and immediately ordered Graeme Curries book, “The Fasting Highway”.  After reading Graeme’s story in le...

I’m 49-year-old mother, wife, sister, auntie and great aunt living in Belfast NI. I changed my lifestyle in Jan 2022 to incorporate intermittent Fasting due to an increase of metabolic health issues. I was trying to juggle my work life balance of being a mother, CEO and living with peri menopause. IF has been life changing ❤️ We take a look over the past year as Grainne takes us through her incred...

I’m 51. Always have struggled with my weight. Grew up in Winnipeg Canada. Suppose the weight issue has been related to anxiety and been addicted to eating to sooth. Weight didn’t get to out of control until I started trucking in 96. Married in 99 not a healthy relationship. We had Mitch in 2008 when he was born, I had gotten down briefly to 220ish. (Atkins). Weight went out of control at that poin...

Rachel Awad lives in Cairo Egypt and is an expat from the US. In today's episode we recap Rachels journey and what has transpired over the last two years since she was last on the podcast in episode 6. We delve into ADF and OMAD and the differences that Rachel has found from both protocols. Rachel is experienced with intermittent fasting and has served as a moderator in popular online fasting...

Netta was desperate to overcome her debilitating health issues. She struggled with chronic constipation, headaches, achy joints, uncomfortable extra pounds, energy slumps, anxiety, mood swings, and more. By the age of 45, she’d tried everything… except for one solution! Cut sugar. But she resisted it – until she realized that “nothing changes if nothing changes”. It started as a temporary 2-week e...

We have a different host this week as Graeme Currie is the one being interviewed by his wife Lou Collins in this special 150th episode of the Fasting Highway.  They talk about what's coming up in the future for Graeme and he mentions his future plans for the fasting highway and his new career in helping people to find auto pilot wellness. Graeme also answers some listener questions that have b...

By Ava Brodie I’m married to Terry he is so lovely and supportive, we met late in life, we have a golden doodle dog he is a cutie, and we live in the United Kingdom. I was a very skinny child eating whatever I like especially sugary stuff and this addiction continued into my adult life. When I reached my 30s my weight started to become an issue, I remember walking into my first weight watchers&#39...

Ruth is 55 years old, and she is from Melbourne Australia, she is the mother of two wonderful sons. (Fifteen and twenty y.o). Ruth works as a psychotherapist and Soul Companion primarily with people encountering death, dying, grief and loss. When she started her IF journey, she felt like it was the last throw of the dice in a lifelong struggle to be in a healthy, happy body. She feels she is about...

Cara Straughn lives in southwestern Missouri, USA. She is a 39-year-old mom of 3 and has been married to her loving husband, Mike, for 17 years. Cara has struggled with her weight ever since junior high. She learned at the young age of 17 that she had developed PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) and struggled with the emotional and physical issues that come along with that over the next 2 decades...

Kevin and Rindi Trainer have been married for almost 37 years and live in the great state of Texas in the United States. They have raised two children who are now adults, and they became grandparents in August of 2022 to a sweet baby boy. To back up a bit, in March of 2020. Rindi went for her yearly physical and was not completely surprised to find out she was pre-diabetic. Her weight was up, bloo...